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Abstract

Provided is a gear grinding method wherein an initial cutting position by a grindstone is appropriately set, resulting in an improvement being able to be made in machining accuracy. For this purpose, the gear grinding method is such that rotation of a workpiece (W) about a workpiece rotation axis (C), cutting by a grindstone (15) in the X-axis direction, and feeding of the grindstone (15) in the Z-axis direction are controlled, resulting in the workpiece (W) being ground by the grindstone (15). In this method, measurement points (P1-P9) are set in a grid-like pattern on a left tooth surface (WL) and a right tooth surface (WR) of a predetermined tooth (Wa) of the workpiece (W); rotation phases about the workpiece rotation axis (C) at the measurement points (P1-P9) are detected; tooth thickness deviation amounts (e) between a reference involute tooth surface and the measurement points (P1-P9) on the left and right tooth surfaces, as well as tooth thickness deviation amounts (e) between the involute tooth surface and corresponding points (Q1-Q9) on all teeth other than the tooth (Wa), are obtained on the basis of the detected rotation phases; and an initial cutting position (X1) for the grindstone (15) is set on the basis of the largest of the deviation amounts (e).

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